Re: [Keyrings] [PATCH] Keys: Add LSM hooks for key management

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On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, David Howells wrote:

> > Any reason why this is configurable?
> 
> Well, I saw that the network stuff was. I can make it non-configurable.
> 
> > Why wouldn't someone want this?
> 
> Speed/latency? But I suppose that's not really a factor.

Yes, the networking is for performance, especially from when we used to 
register Netfilter hooks from within LSM.  I don't know of any distros 
that enable LSM but disable networking so we should probably think about 
removing that as well.

> What about the security ops for keys that I've made available? Does doing it
> that way seem reasonable?

Not sure yet, need to spend some time looking at this from an SELinux 
point of view.


- James
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